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homopolar electric motor

homopolar electric motor

my homemade motor
made from copper, brass, a battery,and a magnet (the 4 best materials ever!) lol
the contact to the magnet is achived with a smaller gauge wire. sorry for the poor picture (cant find my real camera :(

3 comments

Feb 17, 2011. 1:32 PM

Kiteman says:

(You need to use YouTube's "old" embed code.)

Could you add a close-up of the lower contact point?

Feb 17, 2011. 1:50 PM

kcbford1 (author) says:

heres a (blurry) picture of the contact point.

thanks alot for the youtube tip!!

Feb 17, 2011. 1:55 PM

Kiteman says:

Ah, I see now - that wasn't obvious in the video.

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